Adweek news editor Alex Koppelman announced via Twitter that he is leaving the more-than-a-trade-mag for the New Yorker, where he will be associate online news editor. A few minutes later, fellow news editor Brian Braiker announced he would be leaving for the same post at the US office of the Guardian. Mr. Koppelman Read More
New York Times Metro reporter Lisa W. Foderaro takes on an enigma--the academic life of James Franco, Yale doctoral student. The timing of a still-breathlessly-impressed ("James Franco, movie star, had rushed back on the red-eye to play his other big role") profile of Mr. Franco's enthusiasms is curious, given the widely criticized lack of Read More
Marilyn Manson takes on the role of fine artist, a Velazquez parades as basement junk, and Louis Vuitton purses and porn are reconfigured into fine art with varying results. This week in art news: Come as you're not! 1. Ukranian Billionaire Selects Art-Prize NomineesVictor Punchuk's PinchukArtCentre announced the nominees for his $100,000 Generation Read More
Call him Dr. Sir McCartney! Or rather, Paul McCartney, D.Mus., M.B.E.? Actually just stick to Mr. McCartney.
Yale announced that it has awarded Paul McCartney with an Honorary--we assume honorary means he didn't actually have to schlep out to New Haven to attend classes--Doctor of Music degree, an academic degree of the Read More
Last October, in the chandeliered Tap Room of New York’s Yale Club, some members of the college’s Class of 1987 were lunching together when Timothy P. Harkness, class secretary, and one of the litigators that represented Arthur Andersen in the Enron trials, had a capital idea.
Why not re-create the 30-year-old New Haven Read More
Star Childs, who graduated from Yale with a forestry degree 27 years ago, was hammering a nail into a stump outside Sunday’s Yale-Harvard football game. He wore a tie, vest, and blazer, plus matching knit cap, and had a red cup in his non-hammering left hand.
The dozen students gathered around him cheered. “I’m a forester, Read More"It's a Princeton versus Yale thing." That's Edward Tenner, the author of Why Things Bite Back, summing up the rivalry between Robert Caro and the master builder. Mr. Caro graduated Princeton in 1957; Moses finished Yale in 1909. Mr. Tenner told The Real Estate: There is a certain kind of ultra-industrious Read More
A Bloomberg Bonus for City’s Hidden 20 Percent New York’s renaissance since the early 1990’s has bene-fited tens of thousands of citizens whose communities are safer, whose schools are better and whose job opportunities are more plentiful. But poverty, regrettably, remains a stubborn fact of life for far too many New Yorkers—about one in five. Read More
A Bloomberg Bonus for City’s Hidden 20 Percent New York’s renaissance since the early 1990’s has bene-fited tens of thousands of citizens whose communities are safer, whose schools are better and whose job opportunities are more plentiful. But poverty, regrettably, remains a stubborn fact of life for far too many New Yorkers—about one in five. Read More
Robert De Niro’s The Good Shepherd, from a screenplay by Eric Roth, has been described as “The Godfather of spy movies,” which is reasonably accurate as far as the depiction of violence is concerned, as well as the emphasis on ethnicity, which in The Good Shepherd is mostly multi-generational American ruling-class WASP, while in The Read More
The Forward reported two years ago that Sacha Baron Cohen was playing clubs as Borat, in a singalong urging the audience to throw Jews "down the well" to purify his country. Sounds like he's modeling Stanley Milgram, the Yale psychologist whose famous experiment induced its unwitting subjects to turn up the electric shocks for Read More
Time Inc. was in trouble. Two men with very different visions for its future fought for control of the company, and even as the company dipped its toe, gingerly, into new media, a big financial downturn was headed its way before the year was out. No, not 2006—things looked far worse for the company in Read More
The other day I got a copy of Stephen Walt's 2005 book Taming American Power:The Global Response to U.S. Primacy and was surprised to read the section on the Israel lobby. It was nearly as forceful as the paper on the same subject that he and John Mearsheimer published three months ago in the Read More
Anderson Cooper's down-home, appealing commencement speech at Yale 10 days ago was marred by a crack he took at Yoko Ono. He brought up a commencement speech she gave 3 years ago, as a non-model. She said: "I say you can't stand if you've got too much muck in your head. Let it go, Read More
For nearly 30 years, theater audiences knew Wendy Wasserstein as the wry mistress of wit who could make them guffaw in their seats or wheeze until they wept. But to her friends, the essence of this Broadway scribe was always her own high-pitched giggle. “It happened quite often, it was really a part of hezr Read More
